ORBIS SCHOLAE
ORBIS SCHOLAE

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Orbis scholae is an academic journal published by Charles University, Prague. It features articles on school education in the wider socio-cultural context. It aims to contribute to our understanding and the development of school education, and to the reflection of teaching practice and educational policy.

ORBIS SCHOLAE, Vol 3 No 1 (2009), 21–34

Ideologie přirozenosti ve vzdělávání jako překážka překonávání sociálních nerovností

[Ideology of naturalness as a barrier of getting over social inequalities in education]

Lucie Jarkovská

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.239
published online: 23. 02. 2018

abstract

The institution of school is often discussed as a place where social inequali- ties are reproduced. In general, in democratic countries it is believed that education serves as a mean of a growing social mobility. However, it was proved that education does not provide everybody with same chances. In this article I would like to show that school not only reproduces social inequalities that had already been described by others (Bernstein 1975, Bourdieu; Passeron 1977, Beck 2004, Shavit; Blossfeld 1993) but also that the way the education of children is organized can block (especially unprivileged) children in their social positions. The text will present particular outcomes of an ethnographic research. I will demonstrate the ways in which social inequalities are pre- sented to children as natural or deserved without a critical re.exion of social structures that produce them. This is the way the school not only reproduces the inequalities but also legitimizes them.

keywords: inequalities; gender; age; naturalization

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ISSN: 1802-4637
E-ISSN: 2336-3177

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